Miller v. Johnson | |
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Argued April 19, 1995 Decided June 29, 1995 | |
Full case name | Zell Miller v. Davida Johnson |
Citations | 515 U.S. 900 (more) 115 S. Ct. 2475; 132 L. Ed. 2d 762; 1995 U.S. LEXIS 4462 |
Case history | |
Prior | On appeal from U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia. Together with No. 94-797, Abrams et al. v. Johnson et al., and No. 94-929, United States v. Johnson et al., also on appeal from the same court. |
Questions presented | |
Is racial gerrymandering of the congressional redistricting process a violation of the Equal Protection Clause? | |
Holding | |
Georgia's congressional redistricting plan violates the Equal Protection Clause. | |
Court membership | |
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Case opinions | |
Majority | Kennedy, joined by Rehnquist, O'Connor, Scalia, Thomas |
Concurrence | O'Connor |
Dissent | Stevens |
Dissent | Ginsburg, joined by Stevens, Breyer, Souter (except as to Part III-B) |
Laws applied | |
U.S. Const. amend. XIV |
Miller v. Johnson, 515 U.S. 900 (1995), was a United States Supreme Court case concerning "affirmative gerrymandering/racial gerrymandering", where racial minority-majority electoral districts are created during redistricting to increase minority Congressional representation.